EP0182484A2 - Liquid crystal display device - Google Patents
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- G02F1/133—Constructional arrangements; Operation of liquid crystal cells; Circuit arrangements
- G02F1/136—Liquid crystal cells structurally associated with a semi-conducting layer or substrate, e.g. cells forming part of an integrated circuit
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- This invention relates to liquid crystal display devices having sandwiched non-linear type material between the liquid crystal and the liquid crystal driving electrodes.
- Conventionally, liquid crystal display devices have been used as compact, light and low power consumption display devices. Recently, a demand for the enlargement of the amount of displayed information has arisen. In seeking to meet this demand, the following three types of liquid crystal display devices need to be considered: MOS-type liquid crystal display devices using single crystal silicon substrates; thin film transistor (TFT) liquid crystal display devices with semi-conductive layers formed on glass substrates; and MIM-type liquid crystal display devices using non-linear elements composed of metal-insulator-metal. As a MOS-type liquid crystal display device uses single crystal silicon as its substrate, it is not possible to enlarge its size. There is a possibility of enlarging the size of thin film transistor liquid crystal display devices, but as it is necessary to form more than five layers of thin film layers, patterning is necessary, the picture element deficiency rate is high, and the device is expensive. In contrast to the above two types, the MIM-type liquid crystal display device has a relatively simple structure, with the possibility of enlarging its size. Figure 1 is a diagram of a prior art circuit in which a display panel is driven in an X-Y matrix mode, with non-linear resistive elements composes of metal-insulator-metal being serially connected with the liquid crystal. Electrodes 21 form a group of X or line electrodes.
Electrodes 22 form a group of Y or row electrodes. There are usually 200 to 1,000 line electrodes and row electrodes. At each intersection of X and Y electrodes,liquid crystal 23 and non-linearresistive element 24 are formed. This type of display device is driven by a method called the multiplex driving method. In this driving method, assuming the electrical voltage to be applied to each picture elements selected to be displayed to be Vs, and the electrical voltage to be applied to each picture element not to be displayed to be VNS, the driving margin can be expressed as in the following formula
where n = division number (proportional to the number of electrodes) - a = bias number (generally 1/3 to 1/4)
- It will be understood that, as the division number n increases to obtain as many display picture elements as possible, the display voltage Vs and the non-display voltage V Ns of the liquid crystal gradually approach each other, because the driving margin becomes close to 1. Thus the liquid crystal needs to stand up as fast as possible. But with present liquid crystals, the division number n is only about 100, so the liquid crystal cannot stand up immediately. Therefore, to improve the standing up characteristic of this liquid crystal, non-linear resistive elements are serially connected to the liquid crystal.
- Figure 2 shows the characteristic of applied voltage corresponding to the transmission factor of the prior art liquid crystal.
Curve 25 is the usual characteristic of twisted nematic type liquid crystal, andcurve 26 shows its characteristic when a metal-insulator-metal non-linear resistive element is serially connected to the twisted nematic type liquid crystal. In this case, the standing up of the liquid crystal becomes very fast, the threshold voltage VTH shifts to the high voltage side, and thus very large driving margin can be obtained. - Figure 3 is a sectional diagram of a prior art picture element in a display panel with a non-linear resistive element formed on the liquid crystal. Upper and lower
transparent substrates liquid crystal 29. Ametal electrode 30 of tantalum has aninsulating layer 31 of- tantalic pentoxide (Ta,O,) formed by the anodic oxidation of metal tantalum and is covered by atransparent electrode 32 for picture element display. This type of nbn-linear resistive element is a thin insulating film, and electric current passing through the element is called either Poole-Frenkel current, or Fowler-Nordheim tunnel current. To let such currents pass, the insulating layer must be made extremely thin in the order of about 5 to 40 nm. The non-linear resistive element and liquid crystal are serially connected, and, to display a selected element the electric charge is poured into the liquid -crystal layer through the non-linear resistive element. In the case of non-display, the electric charge disappears through the resistance of the liquid crystal. Driving is conducted by multiplex driving. - To conduct smoothly the displaying and non-displaying operations of the liquid crystal device which utilises this type of non-linear resistive element, the non-linear resistive element must satisfy the following conditions: (a) the capacitance CMIM of the non-linear resistive element of one picture element must be less than the capacitance CLC of the liquid crystal; and (b) the ON resistance RON of the non-linear resistive element of one picture element must be approximately one-thirtieth of the resistance RLC of the liquid crystal.
- To satisfy the above conditions, the area of the non-linear resistive element must be less than 20pm2, and the highest electric current to pass through the non-linear resistive element must be about 1 A/cm2. The driving of the liquid crystal is matrix driving, and the electric field applied to the picture element is alternating voltage. Generally wnen 1 A/cm2 of electric current is repeatedly passed through the insulating layer, the breakdown of the insulator may occur when 104 to 107 times current passes through. Therefore, there is a problem in the fife-time of the insulator. Also, when using Ta,O, as non-linear resistance element, the size of the non-linear resistive element must be less than 20µm2 because the layer is so thin, being less than 40nm, the specific inductive capacity is so high, being more than 10. Therefore when forming a large size display panel of more than 20cm2, patterning with very high accuracy must be conducted, and it causes a decline of manufacturing yield, and high cost.
- It is an object of the present invention to seek to avoid the above defects, and to offer a long-life and low-cost liquid crystal display device.
- According to the invention, a liquid crystal display device of the dot matrix type comprises a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between a pair of spaced transparent substrates, a non-linear resistive layer mounted between the liquid crystal and a driving electrode on one of the two substrates, characterised in that the non-linear resistive layer is composed of silicon oxide or nitride, the atomic composition ratio being in the case of oxide not less than 0.2 and not more than 1.9 or, in the case of nitride, not less than 0.2 and not more than 1.3.
- From another aspect, the non-linear resistive layer is of off-stoichiometric silicon oxide or nitride.
- The non-linear resistive layer may extend over substantially the whole surface of the display panel of the transparent substrate.
- The non-linear resistive layer may be composed of a plurality of layers which have different atomic composisition ratios.
- A transparent conductive layer may be mounted on non-linear resistive layer at each driving electrode intersection.
- The scope of the invention is defined by the appended claims, and how it may be carried into effect is hereinafter particularly described with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:-
- Figure 1 is a circuit diagram of a prior art display device;
- Figure 2 is a graph showing the characteristic of applied voltage corresponding to the transmission factor of the prior art liquid crystal using a non-linear resistive element;
- Figure 3 is a sectional diagram of a picture element in a prior art liquid crystal display device using a non-linear resistive element;
- Figure 4a is a sectional diagram of a picture element in one embodiment of the liquid crystal display device according to the present invention;
- Figure 4b is a graph showing the current-voltage characteristics of the non-linear resistive layer of the device of Figure 4a; and
- Figures 5 and 6 are sectional diagrams similar to Figure 4a showing other embodiments of liquid crystal display device according to the present invention.
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transparent substrates 1 and 2 made of glass enclose aliquid crystal layer 3 which is of twisted nematic liquid crystal. Adisplay metal electrode 4 of NiCr is formed on thelower substrate 2. A transparentconductive layer 5 is mounted on the upper substrate 1. Thelayers 4 and 5 form orthogonal line and row groups of electrodes. A non-linearresistive layer 6 of off-stoichiometric silicon oxide is formed by low pressure CVD to a thickness of between 50nm and 200nm and preferably of 100 nm over the electrode 4. According to AES analysis, the atomic composition ratio O/Si of the silicon oxide layer is between 0.2 and 1.9 and about 0.5. Apicture element electrode 7 made of transparent conductive layers overlaps thelayer 6 and electrode 4. The overlapping area of the electrode 4 andpicture element electrode 7 is 500umz. - The current-voltage characteristics of the non-linear resistive layer 6 (Figure 4b) show that when the driving voltage declines from Vop to Vop/2, and the electric current is reduced by more than 4 orders of magnitude. When 108 times of the alternating electric field of the drive voltage Vop is applied to the non-linear resistive layer, breakdown does not occur, but the layer shows the same current-voltage characteristics as in its initial state. When this liquid crystal display device is driven by the multiplex driving method, the contrast ratio of the picture element became more than 15:1, and no cross talk was seen. The
layer 6 is formed by the low pressure CVD and by varying the flow rates of silane gas SiH, and nitrogen oxide gas N,O, the desired current-voltage characteristic can be achieved. Alternatively, the non-linear resistive layer can be an off-stoichiometric silicon nitride layer whose atomic composition ratio N/Si is between 0.2 and 1.3 and about 0.5. By appropriately selecting the flow rates of silane gas SiH, and ammonia NH, when conducting low pressure chemical vapour deposition, the current-voltage characteristics of the silicon nitride non-linear resistive element can be made similar to those of Figure 4b. - In a second embodiment (Figure 5) of liquid crystal display device according to the invention, the upper and lower
transparent substrates 1 and 2 enclosing theliquid crystal layer 3, carrytransparent electrodes electrodes 4 are formed non-linearresistive layers layer 9 is one order of magnitude smaller than that of thelayer 8. For this purpose thelayer 9 has an atomic composition ratio O/Si different from, and in particular smaller than, that of thelayer 8. Thelayers resistive layers transparent electrodes 4 at more than 40pm, the leakage of electric charge at the picture element selecting time can be kept extremely small. By constructing the non-linear resistive element as a two-layer structure, the electric field is more uniformly applied to the liquid crystal of the picture element portion, and thus the unevenness of the display on the picture element portion can be eliminated. The non-linear resistive layers extend over the whole surface of the panel except on the connecting pad portion for the display device and the outside driving circuit, so that the patterning of the non-linear resistive layer is made very easily. The two-layer non-linear resistive element may be of off-stoichiometric silicon nitride. The non-linear resistive layer m;:.y be of-more than two layers which have different atomic composition ratios. - In another embodiment (Figure 6) of liquid crystal display device according to the invention, a transparent
conductive layer 12 is formed at the picture element portion between a transparent non-linear resistive layer 11 on theelectrodes 4 and theliquid crystal layer 3. The non-linearresistive layer 11 is of off-stoichiometric silicon oxide or nitride and extends over the whole surface of the display panel except on the connecting pad portion and the outside driving circuit. Its thickness is between 50 and 200nm. Thetransparent layer 12 that contacts theliquid crystal layer 3 is formed of indium tin oxide (ITO) and has an area of about 200ums, so that pattern accuracy is relieved. - A twisted nematic liquid crystal is utilised, and the outer surfaces of the upper and lower transparent substrates are sandwiched by a pair of polarisers. The non-linear resistive layer can be formed with normal pressure chemical vapour deposition, plasma chemical vapour deposition, sputtering or equivalent methods.
- Because one or a plurality of layers of an off-stoichiometric semiconductor insulator such as silicon oxide or nitride is used as non-linear resistive element, the device life-time is long, the accuracy of the pattern-forming of the non-linear resistive layer is reduced, its size is easy to increase, and it can be manufactured at very low cost
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EP0306338A1 (en) * | 1987-09-04 | 1989-03-08 | Seiko Instruments Inc. | Electro-optical device |
US5466617A (en) * | 1992-03-20 | 1995-11-14 | U.S. Philips Corporation | Manufacturing electronic devices comprising TFTs and MIMs |
US8355274B2 (en) | 2008-09-19 | 2013-01-15 | Panasonic Corporation | Current steering element, storage element, storage device, and method for manufacturing current steering element |
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